Improvement in grain-drill and broadcast-sower



J. INGELS.

Grain Drill.

lPatented Jan. 25, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 99,198, dated .Tamm/ry 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-DRILL AND BROADCAST-SOWER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom t't may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Ineens, of Milton, in the county of Wayne, and State of Indiana, have iuvented certain new and useful Improvements iu Grain- Drills and Broadcast Seed-sowing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and opera-tion of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents, in perspective, view of the general exterior of the machine, and designed more particularly to show the location of the specialparts herein claimed as new.

Figure 2 represents a vertical section through one of the concaves, seeding-wheel, and grain-tubes.

Figure 3 represents a face view of the ratchet-wheel and spring-pawl working therein, which are arranged on the shaft carrying the seed-wheels.

Figure 4 represents a transverse section through the ratchet-wheel and its shaft.

Figure-5 represents, inperspective, one of the broadcast scattering-plates or spouts, and

yFigure 6 represents a section through the tube-board, and scattering-plate or spout attached thereto.

Figure 7 represents, in perspective, the latch-lever, by which the bar that raises the seed-hoes is caught and held up.

Figure 8 represents, in section, a reversible modification of the receiver.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate figures, denote like parts of .the machine in all ofthe drawings.

This invention relates to a receiver, pivoted or bolted to the concave, and to which receiver the India rubber or other elastic grain-tube is attached, so that the tubes may be changed and placed in the hoes, whether front or rear, or in a zigzag line, as may be preferred.

And, it further relates to a ratcl1et-wheel,and springpawl working therewith, and which are connected with and give motion to the seed-shaft.

And, it further consists in combining with the tubeboard at the front of the hopper, furnished with a series of holes, a series of spreading-plates or spouts, for scattering tlie grain broadcast, where it can be cultivated by the hoes.

And, it furthei` consists in a latch-lever, of peculiar i construction and arrangement, for catchingland holding up theroller-bar by which the hoes are raised and lowered.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same, with reference to the drawings.

The general description of the machine I do not propose to go into, as it is clearly shown in g. 1. The additions which I make to the machine, I shall, however, describe minutely.

The concaves or'seed-boxes A, I propose to make as heretofore patented to me, each concave having within it a seeding-wheel, B, and the series of wheels being revolved by the common shaft C, on which they are placed.

To the bottom or projecting portions D of the concaves, is pivoted or bolted, as at a, a receiver, E, into which the grain falls when carried out of the concave A, and to this receiver is fastened the fiexible tube F,

which enters the hoe, and conveys the grain from its receiver to its special hoe, the object of the receiver and its pivot or bolt being toallow the tubes to be moved to the forward or rear set of hoes, when set in a zigzag or front andrear line, which is the common way. When the receiver E and tube F are used, then the tubes, as shown at b, iig. ,1, may be dispensed with, and the grain go direct from the Aconcave to the hoe, the tube-board, insuch case, being dispensed with also.`

The gear-wheel G, which is placed ou the end of the shaft C, and by which said shaft is driven, has ratchet-teeth c on one of its faces, and a peculiar springpawl, H, works in said ratchet, the pawl being secured to the shaft C, so that the gear shall be. ast and loose on the shaft, as it is termed, and as may be required in advancing or backing the machine.

To the shaft C is fastened a plate, I, extending both ways from said shaft. At the end d of said plate I,

and on the under side of it, there is cast a recess, e, capable of containing a coiled spring, f, which .is placed on a stud, stem, or rod ou the end of the pawl H, and bears against said pawl, and against the rigid plateI, so as to constantly exert itself to keep the other end y of the pawl in contact with the ratchet-teeth c. The pawl is pivoted to the end h of the fast plate I, and as shown at t', and around this point i, as a centre, it has its motion, controlled always by the spring f.

From the main hopper a second set of tubes extends forward to a forward tubeboard,-as tl 1ose, b, extend to the rear tube-board. Through this forward tubeboard, which I have marked J in iig. 6, there is made -a series of holes, k, into which the tubes coming from the main hopper extend; and underneath e'ach of the series of holes there is placed a spreading or scatteringplate or spout, K, which is scalloped, as at j, so as to lconduct 0E and spread out the grain 'in thin streams,

and drop it broadcast in front of the hoes, or where the hoes L willcover it as they follow along. y

On the shaft C that turns the seed-wheels B, and

which, for convenience, I make square, so as to fit the square openings in said wheels, I arrange a latch-lever, M, which, that it may have a rm support on said shaft, but not turn with it, is made to set over and upon a sleeve or boss, N, said lboss having a square opening, m, through it, so as to slip on-to said shaft,

and which, of course, must turn with the shaft.

The perimeter, however, of this sleeve or boss is round, and is, moreover,`ilanged, as at n, so that the seat p of the latoh-lever will rest and remain upon it,

vand thus the sleeve or boss may turn, while the latch'- which the rocker-shaft O is rolled, to raise and 'lower the hoes L, which are connected to it by chains q.

0n the end of the rocker-shaft O there is a snailcam, fr, into which the end' of a rod, s, extends, the other end of said rod being fastened to an arm that carries a gear-wheel, t, thatworks in the ratchet-gear G on the seeding-shaft C, so that when the snail-cam o rolls with theshaft O it moves the gear t into and out of action with the gear G, t0 stop or start the dropping of the grain.

That the gears may be easily moved into mesh, without the teeth of one striking and stopping against those of the other, I make thecogs quite pointed, as seen at 156g. 3, so that'they cannot impinge, one upon the other, but readily slip into action.

At iig. 8 is represented a modification of the receiver E, which has a curved tube at its under side, and the lips of which are brought up uniformly at bbth sides, so that by reversing this receiver, the grain-tubes may he carried almost in a direct line to the front or rear lines of the hoes L, when arranged in such lines Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the ratcheted gear-wheel and arm I, the former loose and the latter fast upon the shaft C, the spring-pawl H, constructed and arranged to operate in connection therewith, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the front tube-board, and the'series of openings k through it, a series of sectiOnaland independent scalloped scattering or spreading-spouts, K, for dropping grain broadcast, as and for the purpose described.

3. In combination with the shaft C, the sleeve or boss N, and the latch-lever M, so that the latter may be supported on the shaft,.without turning with it, substantially as described.

. JOSEPH INGELS.

4 Witnesses:

A. B. STGUGHTON, EDMUND MASSON. 

